Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of Adam & Eve, Actress West imparts a meaning all her own; despite all directorial and script-writing efforts to make her steer a straight course, she still writhes as she pleases. As sexless a game as selling a sucker the Brooklyn Bridge resembles, in the West vernacular, a bargain sale of great temptations...
...from 437 to 354 (including 75 part-time organizers). Though numerous resolutions were offered asking for a $6-a-day minimum instead of $5 a day and a 30-hour instead of a 40-hour week, the convention finally left it to Phil Murray & friends to get the best bargain they could...
Notable, too, was Norman Soong's cool eyewitness account of the Panay bombing and sinking, and of the passengers' flight inland. At deferred press rate of 13? a word, that 5,220-word story was a bargain, would have been worth the 73?-a-word urgent cable rate used on the hottest news "breaks." Messrs. Mayell's and Alley's films of the power-diving Japanese planes will be something to see in the U. S. next week if local police departments do not censor them as too inflammatory...
...supplied to Bucharest. Premier Tatarescu was so pleased that he joined M. Delbos in a fervent pledge that "our two countries will remain faithful to the League of Nations and its principles." At the same time, however M. Delbos was warned that Rumania will uphold her end of the bargain only so long as it continues clear that Paris is now loosening rather than tightening its military accord with Moscow (TIME...
...such pressure or weapons as would reduce Vienna and Prague to the status of vassals of Berlin. The British last week found the French as adamant against giving Hitler any such "free hand" as they had just proved unexpectedly agreeable to going as far into the "thieves' bargain" over colonies as Britain may be ready to go. These tactics by M. Léger quickly brought the negotiations to an amiable pause, with Mr. Chamberlain, who is somewhat pro-German, apparently feeling that the French had been "quite reasonable," should not be pressed...